Tue.Jun 20, 2017

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Project Scope 101

ProjectManager.com

Project scope is part of the planning process of any project. Like any other aspect of a project, you want to determine how scope will impact the schedule of your project and, of course, it’s outcome. So, naturally, scope is important. But before you jump into that project plan and begin to tackle the scope of your project, let’s review the basics.

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5 Ways AI and Automation Will Change Project Management

LiquidPlanner

Technology has made our lives easier. If you don’t believe that, go watch a few episodes of the PBS series, The Frontier House. While technology and automation have lessened some of the strain, they’ve also stirred up a lot of fear. The Luddite movement in the early 1800s is one of history’s more famous examples of humans lashing out at automation. During a period of low wages and England’s war with France, English textile workers saw automation and textile machinery as a threat to their livelih

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Resource Planning | 5 Resource Scheduling Principles You Should Apply To Planning Your Time

Ganttic

We glorify being busy. We glorify having a lot on our plates. Managing time (and doing it effectively) is becoming a topic that’s being discussed more and more. People are time-blocking their every action to scare away the horrible waste of time that is procrastination. There are hundreds and maybe thousands apps for do-to lists. We desire to be a superhuman that beats our core instinct to be a lazy baked potato.

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High Performing Teams: What Are They and How Do I Build One?

ActiveCollab

Every Rolls Royce is a car, but not every car is Rolls Royce. Similarly, not every team is a high-performing team. To know what are high-performing teams, all we have to do is upgrade our team definition : Creating a high-performing team. Now that we know WHAT a high performing team should look like, the next question is HOW to make your team high-performing.

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Understand Digital Debt, Form a Team, Set Goals, and Plan Roadmap for Transformation

Understanding digital debt is crucial before digital transformation. Assemble a team to assess internal operations, market pressures, and digital debt's impact. Define future digital vision with measurable goals. Refine hypotheses and conduct market analysis. Develop a roadmap for transformation with defined projects, cost estimates, and governance.

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10 JIRA Plugins for More Efficient Project Management

GanttPRO Project Management

If you are a software developer, it is highly likely that you used or are using JIRA Software. As JIRA developers state, it is number 1 software development tool used […].

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Communications Management: PMP Study Guide (PMBOK 6th Edition)

ExamsPM

Project Communications Management is the process of planning, collecting, storing, and updating project information. This article is part of a PMP Study Guide that summarizes the Communications Management Knowledge Area. The Communications Management knowledge area that a project manager spends the most time on. In fact, over 90% of the project manager’s time is spent on communications.

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Agile Project Management

ActiveCollab

Today, agile is such a buzzword that teams outside software development try to incorporate it into their workflow. But agile is not for everyone. For example, a marketing agency can never implement agile because clients don’t want to pay for a half-finished marketing campaign and iterate. There are revisions, but their number is clearly specified in the contract.

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How project management can improve your business

The Lazy Project Manager

. We all know that effective project management is a key contributor to a project’s success. Still, we often forget to think about the bigger consequences that project management can have on the rest of business. Working on your project management skills does a whole lot more than boost your resume, it has serious impact on your business’ bottom line.

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Scrum Project Management

ActiveCollab

Scrum is a project management framework that helps small, close-knit teams develop complex products incrementally. Scrum focuses on how people work instead of what they do. Scrum relies on agile principles and is the most popular agile methodology out there. In Scrum, teams develop software in sprints and release what they’ve worked on every two weeks.

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Strategic Project Finance Essentials: A Project Manager’s Guide to Financial Metrics

Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar - Sopheon’s Director of Product Management

Empower yourself as a project manager with insights that directly influence the financial landscape and strategic direction of your organization! Join us for a deep dive into the world of financial strategy, as we dissect key metrics that drive CFOs and business leaders’ investment decisions. This session will equip you with the necessary tools to craft compelling business cases as well as a comprehensive understanding of the crucial distinction between capital expenditure and operational expend

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Constructive critique and coaching

Musings on Project Management

It was famously said, in a paraphrase: lead people, manage things. I buy into this advice, so I'm always on the alert for something that. plays into it. In a recent posting, I read some advice on delivering constructive criticism that seem pretty sensible, given my own experience of being on both the receiving end and the delivering side of such encounters.

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High Performing Teams: What Are They and How Do I Build One?

ActiveCollab

Every Rolls Royce is a car, but not every car is Rolls Royce. Similarly, not every team is a high-performing team. To know what are high-performing teams, all we have to do is upgrade our team definition : Creating a high-performing team. Now that we know WHAT a high performing team should look like, the next question is HOW to make your team high-performing.

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10 JIRA Plugins for More Efficient Project Management

GanttPRO Project Management

If you are a software developer, it is highly likely that you used or are using JIRA Software.

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Five Simple Tips for Improving Tone in Written Communication

The Digital Project Manager

A few years ago, I was asked to transition in as Project Manager for Phase II of a large redesign project. For a bit of. The post Five Simple Tips for Improving Tone in Written Communication appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Acclaim Projects Helps Deliver Innovation Projects on Time and on Budget

This large intercity transportation company for people and freight employs 100+ IT employees and contractors across North America and Europe and spends $10MM annually for approximately 50 inflight projects. The company needed the right financial tools to budget for innovation initiatives and real-time information on spending and forecasting. This transportation company turned to Acclaim Projects by Sopheon to help deliver projects on time and within budget.

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5 Rules To Help You Maintain Better Control Over Your Time!

TimeCamp

In the past few months, we were posting some articles dedicated to those, who wanted to improve their time management skills. We helped you establish what is your approach to time (the past, present or future), we discussed the tricks that may help one better organize his or her time. Now, we would like to sum this up into the Five Most Important Rules that you should follow in order to maintain better control over your time.

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Book of the Month

Herding Cats

The Death of Expertise describes how established knowledge is challenged and why this is critical in our modenr society. With nearly unlimited access to information - the information age - we've become narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarians. Everything from webMD to Wikipedia, normal people are now experts. Any idea now demands to be taken seriously.

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Flow Efficiency: A great metric you probably aren’t using

Digite

We are deeply honored to publish this post on Flow Efficiency written by Julia Wester for Lean Kanban University. In this blog, Julia explains the importance of the Flow Efficiency metric, how to calculate it and how to improve it in a Kanban system. Flow Efficiency examines the two basic components that make up lead time: working time and waiting time.